Hello world!

I’m glad to announce that there is a new blog dedicated to APPS DBA stuff (this one) and if it turns out to be useful for at least some of you I’ll count it as a success.

Just A few words about me - my name is Maris Elsins (Māris Elsiņš - if you like the national characters), I’ve been working as an APPS DBA for 3 years. I started as a PL/SQL developer 7 year ago but as time passed I felt it’s just not for me - I needed more action, more responsibility. I decided to become a DBA as I like to understand how and why things work exactly the way they do. I believed the DBA is the one who has to know the internals (at least more then a developer) and it turned out to be true for me. I didn’t want to become an apps dba at once but decided to try when this opportunity was offered during my 1st dba’s job interview.